The inagural Garden State Chess League season wraps up this week with the following matches :
Ian Mangion extended his lead with 2 wins & is on-pace to smash Scott Massey’s unofficial 2004 record of 15.5 points.
Chitra Sridhar scored 12 victories, 2 draws & suffered 3 defeats in less than 3 hours against 16 simultaneous opponents (1 board was re-filled) in Scotch Plains, yesterday. She played 1.e4 in every game.
Bulgarian chess trainer Valeri Lilov, rated 2411, has a weekly show on Playchess.com.
On Mondays at 20:00h CEST (7 p.m. London, 2 p.m. New York) he presents practical
chess problems and interesting themes based on games taken from recent super-tournaments.
This time he will focus on the defence in chess, with live audio commentary.
Take a look, it’s free!
London hasn’t been this crazy about a Swede since the heady days of Bjorn Borg at Wimbledon. This was undoubtedly the best chessboxing night yet seen in the UK; there was a superlative headline bout between two of the world’s leading chessboxers, controversy involving an illegal move, the flamboyant Red Kite, and an England vs Germany match. Pictorial report with annotated games.
It’s been quite a while since our ChessBase Workshop columnist had a look at Fritz features geared toward the beginning chess player. Novices take heart – a new ChessBase Workshop series for this group of novices and amateurs starts now with a column devoted to general advice. Learn more in the latest Workshop.